The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-01-07
MYSTERY AND DELuSToN.
Something About SeanceS-A New Ghost
story Parlor Entertainments,

Something About seances-A New Ghost
story Parlor Entcrtainmont.
Spirit scances arc likely to puzzle.
7 cannot explain how at the only ono
over attended the medium gave me so
accurate au obituary history Of my
relatives and friends.
1: WAS i'm West Forty-sivth street.
Tho house was Pretcntiously furnished.
| was u~hcTc3 into a small reception
room hung with curtains. which was
ua!F Of The, front room, tho other half
aaju, utilized as hallway leading to
The r.."t"r ve7tibulc. The back room
v..- ta.. plrlor, and extended to the
wish Jad depth of the house.
iu this there were several people
patiently awaiting opportunities to in
tervicw relatives who had gone
before"
Tho medium was middlc-aged and
very pale lady who had just risen from
bed Of sickness. When she finally
wont into trance condition she had the
appearance OF q corpse.
/ had made up my mind to ask no
questions and SO she did all the talking
which occupied fully three-qUarters of
au hour.
I was seated in a very comfortable
nu-y chair with the medium closely Wis
t-vi- iu another. 1 was presented TO her
rcraIv aS b. friend Of mine, and am
satisfied that she did not identity
me.
She prefaccd her celestial communica-
tiDus with an expression of fuil belief in
spiritualSm. and the statement that she
was ignorant while in a trance condition
of what she was impartiug
She begged that would go eventual
Iv to another medium To compare notes
for confirmation OF the drSiEe OF my
spirit friends 10 talk to me, and see
Il might not get the same messages.
j. L. k,..r a.. Fv.
and gracefully sunk back and into a
trance.
She possessed q good deal Of magnet
ism for the touch Of her fingers pro-
durrd pricking sensation, rs if L we're
holding the handles Of an electric
battery.
must confess that was greatly sur
pri-rd al her familiarity with the names
of my Go.td relatives and aCquaiutauCcs,
whilc her descriptions were Very ac-
Curutc and messages quit" as 8 would
anticipate from those She declared were
surrounding us.
vas taught in my boyhcod days
wherever I saw ghost TO investigate it.
I have always done so to my
saw one at y 30 o'clock one stormy
night last July. l know the cSact mo-
mcut for ] have in my room a clock
that strikc- tho half hours On = gong,
with dcoP. far-away sound.
It strucILli.,e the toll OF The GrccffwoOd
bell as the appartiou CJH-nt WN eve,
and at the same time jhr heavens,
that wcr. black as Grape, were Hum
mated with the glare of a Hash OF
lightning. and a Gr0wl Of thEndcr
rumHirt mourufuIly overhead. DFhcr-
wise all WIS oppros-iycly quiet.
1 was lying in bed. The windows
were open and the shades drawn up
and there, right over in the coEner
iu the doorway leading to the back
room and i'm the direct line uf my
vi ion. stood pulpablc, vcritablc ghost
ly FIGURE. waving its cNtcndcd arms.
I'm I.5c small gamblcr. l love Il
sure thiuv. and hero, after all my weary
waiting, Ike the old maid who for forty
years looked under her bci for q mas,
/ was at last happily successful.
I was quite ulOuc-that is, we were
QUO alone. Ny family was IN the
country, and I had this terrible ex-
perience all to myself. I was afraid
TO strike match, for its birthstone
fumes would have been too sug-
gestive.
The moro I watched the noiseless in
truder the worse it grew to my startled
imagination. 1 think that l first re-
peated d" Now l lay me, and gaining
courage from the simple prayer made
bold to get up.
As j dpprOaCncu Lit$ NORWAY Iue
ghost vanished I went nearer, and for
three painfully long minutes awaited its
return.
Then thought that I woald 60 TO bed
again, and as / turned 1 saw that the
gasiight from the avenue reflected upon
my body, and noticed that the wind
waved the branches of the trees in front
of the house.
While | stood just whore | had made
the discovery there was no ghost in tho
doorway with beckoning gestures, but
when l went on and got into bed It had
returned.
Smiling at my credulity / sank into
peaceful slumber and didn't even dream
Of dead and gone Gus FennO.
I was witness quite recently TO a cur
ious bit In a parlor entertainment at the
house Of friend.
The host, who was man of good size
and weight. laid himself at full length
upon the carpet. Six gentlemen, three
or either side, put merely the tips of
their fingers under him and then all in
concert took a full breath
This was repeated but three or four
times when the body OF the PROSTATE
man was lifted as IL IL We're but of rub
Der and inflated with air.
This experiment does not require
oxIrIt skill. and / commend it as a
novelty iu the way Of home amuse-
mont Corpulent fathers may not Ike
the position, but they must remember
that it will 50 please the children n.
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